will you compromise on HW?

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sdkitty

sdkitty

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I prefer silver or gunmetal HW over gold. I have my eye on a Ralph Lauren bag that only comes with gold HW. If I like the bag and can get it for the right price, I'd probably buy with the gold.
Do you have a preference? Do you compromise?
 
#3
fashion16 said:
I am a gold hardware girl. Every time I compromise, I end up selling the bag. Learned my lesson
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interesting
for me, it can also depend on how prominent the HW is
gold stands out more so if a bag has lots of gold HW on it and I'm wearing silver jewelry, I tend to not want to carry that bag
 
#4
Depends on how well it goes with my wardrobe (including jewelry).

I prefer silver hardware too. I have some bags with gold hardware that I'll use with gold or rose gold or twotone jewelry. If they don't have a lot of hardware, I'll wear them with silver jewelry.

If the bag is going to be the statement piece, I might tone down the jewelry to go with it. For example, I might wear pearl earrings or a leather-strap watch or scarf instead of necklace to neutralize the metal effect.
 
#6
I'm an all silver gal. Only silver HW for me. Yes this limits handbag purchases, but like fashion16 (in reverse) I ended up selling any gold HW bags. I only wear white gold, silver, platinum jewelry, so it always matches.
 
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#7
I generally like silver or no/minimal hardware. However I find that there's a period of the year, February and March, when I reach for the bags with gold hardware. I think it's because i'm looking for ways to lift my spirits in the slog of mid to late winter. So while I absolutely do not reach for my two or three bags with gold hardware now, I know their season will arrive.
 
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sdkitty said:
interesting
for me, it can also depend on how prominent the HW is
gold stands out more so if a bag has lots of gold HW on it and I'm wearing silver jewelry, I tend to not want to carry that bag
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That's very true but I think the wrong colour hardware can kill a bag though.

I wear gold and silver/plat jewellery, sometimes together (usually not). I also have a few rose gold and black gold pieces so the hw doesn't have to match. But as you say I'm not going to take out my brassy Gucci Babushka when wearing delicate plat jewellery, it would kill the look.

For me it sometimes matter more which colour the hw is on and sometimes the bag itself.

For example with colour: I like an orange-red bag with shw or phw but a pinky-red with ghw. I just like the colours that way and I always have. I suppose because I'm neither very warm or cool colouring, the hardware colour neutralises the overall affect (I hope I'm making sense, I'm theorising whilst typing :p ). Same with every colour. Leaf/yellowy-greens with phw, emerald or blue-green ghw and so on. Except when we get to pinks - always shw please :shrugs:

Black bags would have to have ghw, unless for evening perhaps. And white has to have s/p hw. I'd rather not have a bag that had the 'wrong' colour hw however desirable the actual bag.

Is it any surprise I love Gucci's light-gold hardware, it's a chameleon colour hw for (which is exactly why it was formulated).

I also have silver and gold everything. I'll happily buy same bag in the same colour (different tone) with different colour hw, it is not a problem for me. Same with belt buckles, same scarf rings, I always buy one of each :ghi5:.

For an example with the style of the bag: If it's metallic leather there would have to be no hardware. Bright colour, minimal hw (whatever colour) darker/neutral more hw is OK.

Well yer, so anyway. Writing this post has made me realise I'm obviously very fussy and really idiosyncratic with hardware :wacko:.
 
#10
I feel the same way mkpurselover
I only wear white gold or silver jewelry and I do not personally like mixing metals. Because I very much like to match, this means that I only buy bags with silver hardware.
I cannot even wear a dress if a not hidden zipper is gold.
 
#12
papertiger said:
That's very true but I think the wrong colour hardware can kill a bag though.

I wear gold and silver/plat jewellery, sometimes together (usually not). I also have a few rose gold and black gold pieces so the hw doesn't have to match. But as you say I'm not going to take out my brassy Gucci Babushka when wearing delicate plat jewellery, it would kill the look.

For me it sometimes matter more which colour the hw is on and sometimes the bag itself.

For example with colour: I like an orange-red bag with shw or phw but a pinky-red with ghw. I just like the colours that way and I always have. I suppose because I'm neither very warm or cool colouring, the hardware colour neutralises the overall affect (I hope I'm making sense, I'm theorising whilst typing :p ). Same with every colour. Leaf/yellowy-greens with phw, emerald or blue-green ghw and so on. Except when we get to pinks - always shw please :shrugs:

Black bags would have to have ghw, unless for evening perhaps. And white has to have s/p hw. I'd rather not have a bag that had the 'wrong' colour hw however desirable the actual bag.

Is it any surprise I love Gucci's light-gold hardware, it's a chameleon colour hw for (which is exactly why it was formulated).

I also have silver and gold everything. I'll happily buy same bag in the same colour (different tone) with different colour hw, it is not a problem for me. Same with belt buckles, same scarf rings, I always buy one of each :ghi5:.

For an example with the style of the bag: If it's metallic leather there would have to be no hardware. Bright colour, minimal hw (whatever colour) darker/neutral more hw is OK.

Well yer, so anyway. Writing this post has made me realise I'm obviously very fussy and really idiosyncratic with hardware :wacko:.
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you do have a lot of very specific preferences :)
Having a bag (like BV) with no HW is nice


and for some reason - I don't know if this makes sense - I feel better carrying my rose gold HW bag when wearing silver jewelry than carrying a bag with gold HW. Maybe because the contract with the RG is more extreme.
 
#13
Either is fine with me, but it has to look 'right' with the colour/style of the bag. I did have one with sort of bronzey HW that looked to me like tarnished gold and never really liked the HW because it looked tarnished - but I did use the bag a lot so I guess I didn't really mind it. I recently gave it to charity but not because of the HW, it was because I had a couple of similar bags that I liked better.
 
#14
Totally a silver hardware only girl... which limits my choices pretty substantially usually... I wish folks like RM and MK would vary the hardware on certain bags; however, I also have a nice collection and shouldn't be purchasing anything else!
 
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